Stubborn US spell checking.

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AltaEgo - 22 Jul 2008 02:25 GMT

Hi

I am eleven pages into a lengthy report, (includes a lot of different
formatting) and noticed that my dictionary had reverted to English (US) from
English (Australia). To correct this:
A) Regional and Language Options amended 1) English (Australia) as default
2) keyboard setting set to English (Australia), UK 3) Advanced setting,
Language for non-Unicode changed to English (Australia)
B) Microsoft Office 2003 Language settings amended to enable English
(Australia) as default.
C) PC restarted.
D) Word opened, default English (Australia).

In a NEW document categorize has a red underline, categorise does not, which
is as required. However, in the document in which I discovered the problem,
Word keeps correcting with the English (US) dictionary, despite my attempts
to change the dictionary in the document to English (Australia). It seems to
me that something in the creation of the document sets it as a US spelt
document. Is there a way to work around this?

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macropod - 22 Jul 2008 06:42 GMT

Hi AltaEgo,

Open your Normal.dot template, select a paragraph using the 'Normal' Style, then use Format|Style|Modify|Format|Language and make
sure English(Australian) is selected.

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macropod
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> Hi
>
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> the document to English (Australia). It seems to me that something in the creation of the document sets it as a US spelt document.
> Is there a way to work around this?

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AltaEgo - 23 Jul 2008 04:23 GMT

Not sure that I have your instructions down pat. Here's what I did (Office
2003):

1) Close Word
2) Open normal.dot
3) Open by report and click on a normal paragraph
4) Clicked on Format, Styles and Formatting
5) On the list that popped up right-clicked normal and chose 'select all 116
instances'
6) right-clicked 'normal' on the list'
7) right-clicked 'normal' again and chose 'modify'
8) In the format dropdown, chose 'language'
9) Clicked on English (Australia)

No change. Legalise marked with red, Legalize no marked.

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Steve

> Hi AltaEgo,
>
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>> document sets it as a US spelt document. Is there a way to work around
>> this?

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macropod - 23 Jul 2008 06:34 GMT

Hi AltaEgo,

Double-clicking on 'Normal.dot' will simply create a new document based on that template - it doesn't tell Word to edit the
template, per se. The correct way to edit a template is to Open Word, then use File|Open, select 'Document Templates (.dot)' from
the list of file types, then browse to the folder containing Normal.dot and select & open it.

Once you've done that, select a paragraph in the 'Normal' Style then use Format|Style|Modify|Format|Language and make sure
English(Australian) is selected. Once you're done, save the updated template.

There shouldn't be a need to make the same change to any of the other Styles, as they ordinarily get their language attributes from
the 'Normal' Style. So, after modifying the 'Normal' Style, you'd only need to change any of the others that, for some reason,
didn't get updated.

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macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

> Not sure that I have your instructions down pat. Here's what I did (Office 2003):
>
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>>> the document to English (Australia). It seems to me that something in the creation of the document sets it as a US spelt
>>> document. Is there a way to work around this?

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AltaEgo - 24 Jul 2008 00:43 GMT

It' eazy <bg> once you know how.

Thank you.

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> Hi AltaEgo,
>
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>>>> document sets it as a US spelt document. Is there a way to work around
>>>> this?

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